A reunion in enemy territory
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| Original title | A reunion in enemy territory |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
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| Director | Fritz Freisler |
| script | Fritz Freisler |
| production | Franz Vogel for Eiko, Berlin |
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A reunion in enemy country is a propagandistic, German war silent film from 1915 by Fritz Freisler .
action
The action takes place at the beginning of the First World War . A German officer meets his former bride again during his mission on enemy territory. She is now married to a count and resides with him in a castle. As a patriotic German, she recognizes her current marriage connection as a betrayal of the fatherland and wants to make atonement for it. And so she warns the German soldiers billeted in the castle when they are about to be attacked by the enemy. In doing so, she saves many lives. She has to pay for her “heroic deed” with her life.
Production notes
A reunion in enemy territory is a typical example of a cinematic snap shot as an immediate reaction to the outbreak of the First World War . The three-act film was made in the Eiko-Film-Atelier in Berlin-Marienfelde , had a length of 866 meters and 36 subtitles. A reunion in enemy territory happened on November 24, 1914, and was premiered on January 8, 1915. For director Freisler, this was his first film work.
Contemporary history
In 1935, from a National Socialist point of view, Oskar Kalbus tried to classify this film genre under the chapter heading “Feldgrauer Filmkitsch”, which experienced a real boom in the German Reich in 1914 and 1915 in particular. He writes:
“A certain trunk of experienced film manufacturers could not be frightened, however. First of all, they let their manifold relationships play out in order to be exempted from military service, because they felt called to offer the German people sensational hits "panem et circensis" in their quieter homeland, bearing in mind an ancient Roman experience : Relaxation and distraction, encouragement and encouragement. The cinema should now offer all of this. It was hoped that the general joy in the victories of our army would give rise to the desire for communication, for distracting experiences and, above all, for people to be gathered together in the “little man's theater”. In addition to the current film recordings from the theaters of war, the field-gray film kitsch - or the so-called "patriotic" film of 1914/15. "